Competing polls suggest Alabama Senate race a toss-up headed into the election

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– News from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

Competing polls suggest Alabama Senate race a toss-up headed into the election

 

One poll shows Democratic candidate Doug Jones with a ten-point lead over Republican Roy Moore, while another has Moore up by a nine-points.

 

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And if one looks to all of the recent Alabama special election polling conducted in recent days, tomorrow’s election outcome looks about as predictable as making book on who will be the next politician, media figure or corporate executive to be #metoo’ed.

 

In the meanwhile, those reaching into Roy Moore’s past statements have found what he said on “Aroostook Watchmen,” a radio show that trafficks in conspiracy theories. 

 

Moore’s statements on this radio show included calling for the elimination of all of amendments to the US Constitution other than first ten in the Bill of Rights. 

 

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Amendments passed after the first 10 include: the thirteenth, which abolished slavery; the fourteenth which guaranteed citizenship for former slaves; the fifteenth, which allowed black people to vote; and, the nineteenth, which allowed women to vote.

 

And finally, the current Republican Senior Senator from Alabama is in record as saying he couldn’t vote for Roy Moore two days before the election and thus wrote in the name of someone else whose name he would not disclose.

 

Needless to say, the political junkies covering the political desk at Quincy Quarry will be watching closely tomorrow’s results from the special election in Alabama.

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